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Fabio Nobrega
Fabio Nobrega

Reputation: 13

regex to separate numbers from comma delimited list

I need a pure regex (no language) to separate the numbers of this input array:

L1,3,5,0,5,80,40,31,0,0,0,0,512,412,213,900

Issues:

  1. The first field (L1) is fixed. The array will always start with L1.
  2. The other fields will always be 0 or positive numbers.
  3. But I need to acquire each data separately, so it would be:
    A regex for second data (number 3 in the example)
    A regex for third data (number 5 in the example)
    ....
    A regex for sixteenth data (number 900 in the example)

I tried this regex [^;,]* but it wasn't able to get each data separately.

Can anyone help me on this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 646

Answers (2)

dawg
dawg

Reputation: 103844

With 'pure regex' to get each field, you have to use separate capture groups:

^L(\d),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+),(\d+)$

Demo

(Note: In Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, etc you can have a global find and capture like /(\d+)/g but that is the language gathering up the matches into a list...)

If you want just one specific field, you can use numbered repetition. 

^L(\d)(,(\d+)){N}

Capture group 3 would always be field N-1 so to capture 213, the 15th field, in your example:

^L(\d)(,(\d+)){14}

Demo2

Upvotes: 3

mvw
mvw

Reputation: 5105

Trying to refine dawg's approach such that less capturing groups are used:

The fourth field can be matched by

^L1(?:,(\d+)){3}

Online Test

The fifth field can be matched by

^L1(?:,(\d+)){4}

etc.

Upvotes: 0

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